Press Releases

Spring 2008

Where do people snort tea? Is anything in Kazakhstan better than Borat? Can you drive a tuk-tuk through the Himalayas? Who cut off his eyelids and found that they turned into a tea plant?

Over the coming months, Maximum Exposure Productions’  ‘Tracing Tea’ will endeavor to answer these questions (and a few more besides) as the team travels 15,000 miles overland through the 18 countries en-route from the Darjeeling tea estates in India to London, the home of afternoon tea. ... Read full article

21 February 2007

Students plan 10,000-mile tea break to bag rickshaw record

The six students will this Friday (February 23rd) launch their bid to spend 160 days on a ten thousand mile route tracing tea's cultural history.
Far from simply jumping in a jeep, however, they plan on making the entire journey in three-wheeled motorised rickshaws with a top speed of 30mph. If successful, they will break the record for the longest distance ever covered in their (somewhat bumpy) chosen form of transport.
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